Campaspe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEE FFGGHH IDIJJBKB LLMNNBB| Turn from the ways of this Woman Campaspe we call her by name | A |
| She is fairer than flowers of the fire | B |
| she is brighter than brightness of flame | A |
| As a song that strikes swift to the heart | C |
| with the beat of the blood of the South | D |
| And a light and a leap and a smart is the play of her perilous mouth | D |
| Her eyes are as splendours that break in the rain at the set of the sun | E |
| But turn from the steps of Campaspe a Woman to look at and shun | E |
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| Dost thou know of the cunning of Beauty Take heed to thyself and beware | F |
| Of the trap in the droop in the raiment the snare in the folds of the hair | F |
| She is fulgent in flashes of pearl the breeze with her breathing is sweet | G |
| But fly from the face of the girl there is death in the fall of her feet | G |
| Is she maiden or marvel of marble Oh rather a tigress at wait | H |
| To pounce on thy soul for her pastime a leopard for love or for hate | H |
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| Woman of shadow and furnace She biteth her lips to restrain | I |
| Speech that springs out when she sleepeth | D |
| by the stirs and the starts of her pain | I |
| As music half shapen of sorrow with its wants and its infinite wail | J |
| Is the voice of Campaspe the beauty at bay with her passion dead pale | J |
| Go out from the courts of her loving nor tempt the fierce dance of desire | B |
| Where thy life would be shrivelled like stubble | K |
| in the stress and the fervour of fire | B |
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| I know of one gentle as moonlight she is sad as the shine of the moon | L |
| But touching the ways of her eyes are she comes to my soul like a tune | L |
| Like a tune that is filled with faint voices | M |
| of the loved and the lost and the lone | N |
| Doth this stranger abide with my silence like a tune with a tremulous tone | N |
| The leopard we call her Campaspe I pluck at a rose and I stir | B |
| To think of this sweet hearted maiden what name is too tender for her | B |
Henry Kendall
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